Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Heller Altschwendt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altschwendt (Municipality of Altschwendt) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Gut-Schein 10 Heller Kriegsnot ließ uns verstummen, Notgeld, hilf uns wieder brummen! Laut Ausschuß-Sitzungs-Beschluß vom 25. April 1920 gibt die Gemeinde Altschwendt Gutscheine aus und wird die Einlösung derselben durch eine eigene Kundmachung bekanntgegeben. Nachahmung verboten. Franz Altmann, Bürgermeister Gemeinde Altschwendt |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Gemeinde Altschwendt 10 W.D. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Altschwendt is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency — the acute small-coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. Thousands of Austrian communes issued their own paper fractional currency between 1919 and 1921, most in very small print runs intended for purely local use. The practical circulation radius of a note like this would have been measured in kilometers.
Bürgermeister Franz Altmann's signature as sole authorizing signatory was typical for village-level issues, where no formal banking apparatus existed to cosign.